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List of Graeco-Roman geographers, the Glossary

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48 relations: Agatharchides, Agathemerus, Agathodaemon of Alexandria, Alexander Polyhistor, Alypius of Antioch, Anaximander, Autolycus of Pitane, Cosmas Indicopleustes, Deimachus, Dicaearchus, Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius of Byzantium, Eratosthenes, Expositio totius mundi et gentium, Floruit, Gaius Licinius Mucianus, Geography (Ptolemy), Gottfried Bernhardy, Hecataeus of Miletus, Herodotus, Hierocles (author of Synecdemus), Hipparchus, History of geography, Homer, Isidore of Charax, Julius Honorius, Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller, Marcian of Heraclea, Marinus of Tyre, Massaliote Periplus, Megasthenes, Natural History (Pliny), Pausanias (geographer), Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, Pliny the Elder, Pomponius Mela, Posidonius, Pseudo-Scymnus, Ptolemy, Pytheas, Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Scylax of Caryanda, Scymnus, Stephanus of Byzantium, Strabo, Tabula Peutingeriana, Timosthenes.
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Agatharchides

Agatharchides or Agatharchus (Ἀγαθαρχίδης or Ἀγάθαρχος, Agatharchos) of Cnidus was a Greek historian and geographer (flourished 2nd century BC). List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Agatharchides are ancient Greek geographers.

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Agathemerus

Agathemerus (Ἀγαθήμερος) was a Greek geographer who during the Roman Greece period published a small two-part geographical work titled A Sketch of Geography in Epitome (τῆς γεωγραφίας ὑποτυπώσεις ἐν ἐπιτομῇ), addressed to his pupil Philon. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Agathemerus are ancient Greek geographers.

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Agathodaemon of Alexandria

Agathodaemon of Alexandria (Ἀγαθοδαίμων Ἀλεξανδρεὺς, Agathodaímōn Alexandreùs) was a Greek or Hellenized Egyptian cartographer, presumably from Alexandria, Egypt, in late Antiquity, probably in the 2nd century A.D.

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Alexander Polyhistor

Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor (Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Πολυΐστωρ; flourished in the first half of the 1st century BC; also called Alexander of Miletus) was a Greek scholar who was enslaved by the Romans during the Mithridatic War and taken to Rome as a tutor. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Alexander Polyhistor are ancient Greek geographers.

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Alypius of Antioch

Alypius of Antioch was a geographer and a vicarius of Roman Britain, probably in the late 350s AD. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Alypius of Antioch are ancient Roman geographers.

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Anaximander

Anaximander (Ἀναξίμανδρος Anaximandros) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus,"Anaximander" in Chambers's Encyclopædia.

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Autolycus of Pitane

Autolycus of Pitane (Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; c. 360 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, and geographer. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Autolycus of Pitane are ancient Greek geographers.

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Cosmas Indicopleustes

Cosmas Indicopleustes (lit; also known as Cosmas the Monk) was a merchant and later hermit from Alexandria in Egypt.

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Deimachus

Deimachus or Daimachus (Δηΐμαχος or Δαΐμαχος) was a Greek from Plataeae, who lived during the third-century BCE. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Deimachus are ancient Greek geographers.

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Dicaearchus

Dicaearchus of Messana (Δικαίαρχος Dikaiarkhos), also written Dikaiarchos, was a Greek philosopher, geographer and author. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Dicaearchus are ancient Greek geographers.

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Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus or Diodorus of Sicily (Diódōros; 1st century BC) was an ancient Greek historian. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Diodorus Siculus are Classical geography.

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Dionysius of Byzantium

Dionysius of Byzantium (Greek ∆ιονύσιος Βυζάντιος, Dionysios Byzantios Latin Dionysius Byzantinus) was a Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Dionysius of Byzantium are ancient Greek geographers.

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Eratosthenes

Eratosthenes of Cyrene (Ἐρατοσθένης; –) was a Greek polymath: a mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Eratosthenes are ancient Greek geographers.

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Expositio totius mundi et gentium

Expositio totius mundi et gentium ("A description of the world and its people") is a brief "commercial-geographical" survey written by an anonymous citizen of the Roman Empire living during the reign of Constantius II.

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Floruit

Floruit (abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active.

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Gaius Licinius Mucianus

Gaius Licinius Mucianus (fl. 1st century AD) was a Roman general, statesman and writer. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Gaius Licinius Mucianus are ancient Roman geographers.

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Geography (Ptolemy)

The Geography (Γεωγραφικὴ Ὑφήγησις,, "Geographical Guidance"), also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the Cosmographia, is a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire.

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Gottfried Bernhardy

Gottfried Bernhardy (20 March 1800 – 14 May 1875), German philologist and literary historian, was born at Landsberg an der Warthe (now Poland) in the Neumark.

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Hecataeus of Miletus

Hecataeus of Miletus (Ἑκαταῖος ὁ Μιλήσιος;Named after the Greek goddess Hecate--> c. 550 – c. 476 BC), son of Hegesander, was an early Greek historian and geographer. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Hecataeus of Miletus are ancient Greek geographers.

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Herodotus

Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.

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Hierocles (Greek: Ἱεροκλῆς Hierokles) was a Byzantine geographer of the sixth century and the attributed author of the Synecdemus or Synekdemos, which contains a table of administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire and lists of the cities of each.

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Hipparchus

Hipparchus (Ἵππαρχος, Hipparkhos; BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Hipparchus are ancient Greek geographers.

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History of geography

The history of geography includes many histories of geography which have differed over time and between different cultural and political groups.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.

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Isidore of Charax

Isidore of Charax (Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Χαρακηνός, Isídōros o Charakēnós; Isidorus Characenus) was a Greco-Roman geographer of the 1st century BC and 1st century AD, a citizen of the Parthian Empire, about whom nothing is known but his name and that he wrote at least one work. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Isidore of Charax are ancient Greek geographers and ancient Roman geographers.

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Julius Honorius

Julius Honorius, also known as Julius Orator, was a teacher of geography during Late Antiquity. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Julius Honorius are Classical geography.

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Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller

Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller (Carolus Müllerus; 13 February 1813 in Clausthal – 1894 in Göttingen) is best known for his still-useful Didot editions of fragmentary Greek authors, especially the monumental five-volume Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (FHG) (1841–1870), which is not yet completely superseded by the series Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker begun by Felix Jacoby.

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Marcian of Heraclea

Marcian of Heraclea (Μαρκιανὸς Ἡρακλεώτης, Markianòs Hērakleṓtēs; Marcianus Heracleënsis; fl. century AD) was a minor Greek geographer from Heraclea Pontica in Late Antiquity.

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Marinus of Tyre

Marinus of Tyre (Μαρῖνος ὁ Τύριος, Marînos ho Týrios; 70–130) was a Greek-speaking Roman geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography and provided the underpinnings of Claudius Ptolemy's influential Geography. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Marinus of Tyre are ancient Greek geographers and ancient Roman geographers.

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Massaliote Periplus

The Massaliote Periplus or Massiliote Periplus is a theoretical reconstruction of a sixth-century BC periplus, or sailing manual, proposed by historian Adolf Schulten. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Massaliote Periplus are ancient Roman geography.

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Megasthenes

Megasthenes (Μεγασθένης, died 290 BCE) was an ancient Greek historian, diplomat, ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Megasthenes are ancient Greek geographers.

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Natural History (Pliny)

The Natural History (Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder.

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Pausanias (geographer)

Pausanias (Παυσανίας) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Pausanias (geographer) are ancient Greek geographers and ancient Roman geographers.

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Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax

The Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax is an ancient Greek periplus (περίπλους períplous, 'circumnavigation') describing the sea route around the Mediterranean and Black Sea.

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea

The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (Περίπλους τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς Θαλάσσης, Períplous tē̂s Erythrâs Thalássēs), also known by its Latin name as the, is a Greco-Roman periplus written in Koine Greek that describes navigation and trading opportunities from Roman Egyptian ports like Berenice Troglodytica along the coast of the Red Sea and others along the Horn of Africa, the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean, including the modern-day Sindh region of Pakistan and southwestern regions of India. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and periplus of the Erythraean Sea are Classical geography.

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Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Pliny the Elder are ancient Roman geographers and Classical geography.

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Pomponius Mela

Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest known Roman geographer. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Pomponius Mela are ancient Roman geographers.

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Posidonius

Posidonius (Ποσειδώνιος, "of Poseidon") "of Apameia" (ὁ Ἀπαμεύς) or "of Rhodes" (ὁ Ῥόδιος), was a Greek politician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, historian, mathematician, and teacher native to Apamea, Syria. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Posidonius are ancient Greek geographers.

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Pseudo-Scymnus

Pseudo-Scymnus is the name given by Augustus Meineke to the unknown author of a work on geography written in Classical Greek, the Periodos to Nicomedes. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Pseudo-Scymnus are ancient Greek geographers.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Ptolemy are ancient Greek geographers and ancient Roman geographers.

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Pytheas

Pytheas of Massalia (Ancient Greek: Πυθέας ὁ Μασσαλιώτης Pythéās ho Massaliōtēs; Latin: Pytheas Massiliensis; born 350 BC, 320–306 BC) was a Greek geographer, explorer and astronomer from the Greek colony of Massalia (modern-day Marseille, France). List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Pytheas are ancient Greek geographers.

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Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft

The Realencyclopädie (German for "Practical Encyclopedia"; RE) is a series of German encyclopedias on Greco-Roman topics and scholarship.

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Scylax of Caryanda

Scylax of Caryanda (Σκύλαξ ὁ Καρυανδεύς) was a Greek explorer and writer of the late 6th and early 5th centuries BCE. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Scylax of Caryanda are ancient Greek geographers.

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Scymnus

Scymnus of Chios (Σκύμνος ὁ Xῖος; fl. c. 185 BC) was a Greek geographer. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Scymnus are ancient Greek geographers.

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Stephanus of Byzantium

Stephanus or Stephen of Byzantium (Stephanus Byzantinus; Στέφανος Βυζάντιος, Stéphanos Byzántios; centuryAD) was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled Ethnica (Ἐθνικά).

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Strabo

StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and strabo are ancient Greek geographers and ancient Roman geographers.

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Tabula Peutingeriana

Tabula Peutingeriana (Latin for 'The Peutinger Map'), also referred to as Peutinger's Tabula or Peutinger Table, is an illustrated itinerarium (ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of the cursus publicus, the road network of the Roman Empire.

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Timosthenes

Timosthenes of Rhodes (Greek: Τιμοσθένης) (fl. 270 BCE) was a Greek navigator, geographer and admiral in Ptolemaic navy. List of Graeco-Roman geographers and Timosthenes are ancient Greek geographers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Graeco-Roman_geographers

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Ancient Roman geographers

Ancient Roman geography

Classical geography

Greco-Roman world

Lists of ancient Greek people

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